So you want to know if a guy likes you? Some guys can be hard to read if they don’t just come right out and tell you they like you.
The good news is that a guy’s body language can be a big giveaway when it comes to figuring out if he likes you.
There are certain things guys do subconsciously when they like a woman. If you know what signs to look for, you can decode his body language and find out if he’s crushing on you.
Here is a list of 24 signs a guy likes you. If a guy did only one of these things, it probably wouldn’t tell you much. But if he does a bunch of them, then you can be pretty sure he likes you.
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1. He smiles at you
If you notice a guy smiling at you, it’s a pretty good indication he likes you. It’s natural to smile at someone you like, but how do you know if it means something more? Try to notice how often he smiles at you. If he seems to smile at you a lot more than would seem normal, he probably likes you. If he seems to smile at you whenever you lock eyes, for no apparent reason, he probably likes you.
2. He maintains eye contact with you
If a guy makes eye contact with you and it feels prolonged, even just a fraction of a second longer than would seem normal, he is most likely interested in you. Especially if he flashes you a big grin at the same time.
3. You catch him staring at you
Have you ever caught a guy staring at you, and he suddenly turns away? If you catch him once, it could be a mere coincidence. But if it happens more than once, chances are he likes you. Provided you aren’t doing or wearing something absurd or have food on your face, he’s probably into you.
4. He’s always around
If a guy is always walking near you, sitting next to you, or just seems to pop up wherever you are, those are all good signs that he is interested and trying to find opportunities to get closer to you.
5. He stands a little too close
If you feel as though a guy is invading your personal space just slightly, this could be a major sign that he likes you. Take note of the distance between you when he’s around. If he’s a little bit closer than he should be, he probably likes you. If you move in a little and he doesn’t step back, it means he’s receptive. If he responds by getting even closer, you can be pretty certain he really likes you.
6. He leans in, shoulders square to you, without turning his back
If a guy leans in facing you with his shoulders square to you, and rarely turns his back, that kind of body language is a good indication he’s interested in you.
7. His legs, feet, or toes are pointed towards you
When a guy is interested in you, he may subconsciously point his legs, feet, or toes towards you. People tend to point their feet in the direction of where they want to go or who they are interested in.
8. He stands tall
When a guy likes you, he may subconsciously stand up taller, push his chest out, and tuck his stomach in to impress you and appear more masculine. If a guy is slouching and suddenly stands up taller when he sees you, this could indicate he’s subconsciously trying to impress you.
9. He mirrors your body language
People tend to subconsciously mirror each other’s actions when they are listening to one another intently. If a guy mimics your body language, this could be strong indication of his interest because it means he’s focused on you. Try leaning forward, touching your hair, taking a sip of your drink, or resting your chin on your hand. If a guy likes you, he might start copying your gestures without even realizing he’s doing it.
10. He touches you
If you notice a guy making a lot of unnecessary physical contact with you, he probably likes you. He might brush against your arm, pat you on the back, put his hands on your shoulders, touch his leg to yours, or give you a lot of hugs. The more physical contact he makes, the more obvious it is that he likes you.
11. He raises his eyebrows
If a guy raises his eyebrows in response to something you say or do, it could be an indication of his interest in you. On its own, this might not be enough to tell if a guy likes you, as it could just be a friendly, non-flirty facial expression, so watch out for other signs too.
12. He grooms himself
If a guy starts grooming himself when he sees you, he may be subconsciously trying to look good around you. If he starts fixing his hair, brushing the lint off his clothes, or straightening his tie, it could mean that he likes you.
13. He’s nervous, awkward, or clumsy around you
If a guy acts nervous, blushes, gets flustered, or is just awkward around you, he probably likes you. He’s most likely nervous about making a good impression.
14. He laughs at your jokes
If he laughs at your jokes, even when they aren’t that funny, it’s a good sign he likes you.
15. He shows off
If a guy tends to show off a lot around you, he probably likes you and is just trying to get your attention.
16. After he says or does something funny, he looks at you for a reaction
Let’s say a guy tells a joke or does something funny in a group and everyone around starts laughing. If he looks at you first to see your reaction, it’s a sign he likes you because he wants to make sure you noticed and laughed too.
17. His behavior changes instantly
If a guy’s behavior changes the minute he sees you, that could be a sign he likes you and is trying to impress you. If he’s in a group and he’s laughing or acting rowdy, he might instantly quiet down when he notices you. Or he might have been quiet and then suddenly gets louder and tries to become the center of attention to impress you.
18. He treats you differently
Watch how a guy acts around his friends or other girls. If he treats you differently, that could be a sign he likes you.
19. He’s protective
If a guy likes you, he may start to act protective of you. He might give you his jacket if you’re cold. Or if you are walking through a crowded place, he might position himself in front of you to push away the crowd.
20. His friends tease him around you
If you’re around a guy when he’s hanging out with his friends, and they know he likes you, they may tease him subtly. Watch how his friends act around you. If they turn towards him, smile at him, punch him in the arm, or smirk knowingly, they’re probably messing with him because they know he likes you.
21. Acts annoyed or jealous when you talk to other guys
If a guy is keeping an eye on you and looks jealous or annoyed when you’re talking to another guy, he probably likes you. He might try to look like he’s not paying attention, but he’ll keep tabs on you to see if you’re interested in the other guy. He might even sigh or walk away.
22. Watches you while he flirts with other girls
If a guy’s watching you while he’s flirting with another girl, he’s probably trying to get your attention and gauge your reaction to find out if you like him. Why else would he be looking at you when he’s supposed to be flirting with someone else if he didn’t like you?
23. He hangs around one second longer
When you’ve been talking to a guy, and he’s about to leave, but then stays one second longer than he had to, it’s a sign he likes you. That one second longer was a moment of hesitation where he was trying to decide if he should ask for your number or ask you out.
24. He takes one last look at you
If a guy makes eye contact with you just before leaving the room, even though he’s busy talking to someone else, he probably likes you and wanted to get one last look at you. He was probably hoping you were looking at him too so he could lock eyes with you one more time.
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About Adrienne Mansfield
So this is complicated because he’s my crush and I’ve liked him for a long time now. Last year we used to talk a lot because he sat beside me in math and he would always say corny jokes and looks at me for a reaction. I think he liked me too because also I would over hear him talking to his friends about me. The kid that sat in front of me said “you should ask him out he likes you” but I didn’t.
Then this year we just stopped talking but whenever we do talk he does the same things as last year but I think he likes my friend because he does that to her too (he’s not a player) and ugh. I don’t know, I don’t say anything to my friends because they want my friend to be with him.
There is a guy who has known me 4 months… The first time we talked was when he came up to me for some sheets for work. Then he began the conversation himself, started off asking minor questions and would approach me when I’d be in my friends circle mostly for studies.
For the first 2 months he didn’t pay much attention, however recently he has just begun acting too chummy. He’d always say hi, expect me to say hello first, compliment me a lot, bump into me leaving me surprised thinkin it was just a coincidence, expecting me to care for him, like asking how are you doing and stuff, coming over whenever I’m free, recalling minor things I said in the past, trying to spend maximum time with me.
However, I just feel too uncomfortable around him. I don’t know, I act nervous and he looks at me in a questioning manner, asking me if I’m ok and not fine with his company. He reminds me asking him about some of important things he’d been going through, verbally tells me how important I am. It’s all too confusing, but I think I like him just because I think he’s interested but does it sound that he really is? Or is he just flirting? Help!! Please!!
Someone please reply, because there’s this boy in 2 of my classes. I’m not popular at all and he is, I’m a freshman and he’s a 10th grader so I don’t even know if he likes me. Evidence: he looks at me a lot (nobody looks at me that much or I look at him a lot and he just notices), he almost like avoids me- we don’t know each other and I’m not annoying so there’s no reason for it. Once when he said something to me and I responded he looked at me like I was so interesting. He doesn’t talk to me casually like he used to, etc.
Some popular guys are just flirts in general so you got to be careful about that, but if you’ve never seen him act the way he does with other girls like he does with you then maybe you should just try talking to him more or even asking why he acts weird around you, but if you do, ask as if you friend zoned him so if it’s a different case than him having feelings for you, it isn’t awkward. I can’t really tell you much otherwise than that unless if things escalate between how he acts towards you! So keep me updated!
You should try and get to know him more, such as just saying Hi in class or Facebook him. If you don’t try and get to know him, you won’t ever have a chance of dating him. But you should become friends first so you know what he is like.
So try and talk to him!
Okay so I really need help. Let’s start with problem number 1. So there was this guy who I used to like about a year ago. I don’t like him anymore but I know I easily probably could again if we talked. I did something really rude to him and I never really apologized for it, but I did this really cute thing afterwards. I guess to make up for it.
Long story short, whenever I see him he ALWAYS has the exact same reaction. Every. Time. I just saw him the first time in a while and he still acts the exact same. So this is how it goes. We see each other, he stares at me then walks near me as if he wants to talk to me. Usually I’m probably talking to someone else, I wanna say a guy most of the time, but then again I’m not really sure. But this recent time I was.
He doesn’t end up talking to me and instead talks to another person he knows near me. Then I leave or something, see him several times, but eventually I say hi or something when he’s looking at me and I’m looking at him or I feel like it wouldn’t be awkward to talk to him. And he’ll ignore me or act like he wants nothing to do with me all of a sudden. (Even if I don’t try talking to him after a while he acts like this).
I always want to apologize but he’s always with other people and I feel like it’s to personal to say in front of others. It’s confusing me so much and I just don’t understand why this happens everytime.
Okay my problem #2 (just address it as problem number 2 so I know what guy you’re taking about if you answer back): I don’t like this guy either but we were in this choir room and I hit the low keys on the piano and our choir director got really mad and banned us from using the piano for a year and he really likes playing that piano and I apologized to our choir director and got the piano back on limits for everyone else but me and I just can’t seem to apologize to him and tell him. I feel like he probably really doesn’t like me especially after he tried making a move on me and I rejected. And that it would be way easier just to not bother with the situation but idk I feel guilt so easily.
This guy is so confusing!! He’s not shy, yet he is… one day he’ll talk to me then the next day it seems like he’s ignoring me. sigh. He’s one of my instructors in karate class… he’ll smile and tease me… but I’m still confused. Why? There is one other girl of whom he talks to a lot. But, I don’t notice any signs concerning her except conversation… -maybe a little tease but not much.
Like I said, he isn’t shy- at times- at least when it’s not me. Problem is most of those signs seem to describe a shy person… (?) He’s tapped my back, slapped my pony tail, etc. but he’s bold with lots of people… maybe not with the same actions….I have to admit. As for puffing up, he always looks puffed up. He’s well, fit… he’s works out 24/7 so I don’t know how to tell. He’s NOT a player, well, its just hard to put into words…. what does it sound like to you?
I like this guy and I’m in year 7 (yes I’m British) and he keeps on looking at me like EVERY DAY and he makes eye contact with me EVERY TIME!!!! And he keeps on talking to me and LOOKING AT ME!!!!!!!! The eyecontact he makes is really really strong.
What does this mean plzzz reply.
I think I like him… but does he like me too??? Actually he is in a distant relationship with a girl and as far as I’ve heard it wasn’t going well for them. He is actually my friend’s brother in law and we met only a few times but it made me curious about him since then.
We never really had a good conversation over the past years, it was only hi and hellos plus those smiles. But this one occasion, he actually spoke to me out of the blue and he was asking me if I wanted to have kids or want to get married and blurted out my answer. He had this wide smile and I felt embarrassed with such questions. Who would suddenly ask me about all these things when I don’t even know how it feels to have a boyfriend.
Anyways sometimes I spotted him looking at me and sometimes some of my friends say he is looking at me too while I’m not facing his way. I got into a booze night with my friends and he was there. I don’t really drink so I just had a sip of some of the drinks and still made me drunk.
While my friends were poking fun of me while drunk, he was paying attention and looking after me and my friends say he is really sweet for taking care of me. He even drank all the alcohol that I took a sip of. He made me coffee and was following me around while drunk just to make sure I didn’t hurt myself. The other day, my friends were telling me how sweet we are and how lucky I was being taken care of. I don’t quite remember everything so I asked them if they think he likes me or he was just caring… I know he is a very responsible nice and caring person but~ he still is in a distant relationship.
First of all you should be really sure that the guy you like is not in a relationship. Put yourself in the shoes of the girl he has a relationship with. Would you like it if an another girl took him away from you? I dont think so…
The guy you are talking about seems to like you, he cares about you and is making conservation with you. Try to get to know him better. Ask him questions about himself, guys like that, but not awkward or rude questions just simply ones about himself what kind of music he likes and so on.
Good luck 🙂
There is this boy who said he liked me, but he told a girl it was a joke. He is always looking at me and laughs at my corny jokes and smiles at me. He tries to laugh and play when he’s around me, but I have no idea what to do. Not to mention the girl he told that it was a joke is my cousin. Today he couldn’t keep his eyes off me on the bus. Help!
Wow that guy is really intrested in you, he maybe said that it was a joke because he was shy, he perhaps thought that your cousin would tell you what he said about loving you.
Or maybe he didn’t want everyone knowing that he likes you, because he is not sure yet if you like him back. You should try to show him if you do or else he would get tired of trying to get your attention with no results. Talk to him, laugh at his jokes, show him that you care!!
Gooood luck 😀
Pretty sure he does like you… maybe he told your cousin that to get the tension off.- or as a game. But I think he does.
I have a crush on this guy but I don’t know if he likes me back. I have a class with him and this one time his friend was telling a story about when he was playing flag football and my crush’s shorts got pulled down and he would look at me straight in the eye but I don’t know if it was to see if I was laughing or what. I have also caught him looking at me a few times. What does this mean?
It means he loves you because men are a homogeneous category of animal.
I have a class with this guy. He was telling an embarrassing story of his while playing football. He would look my way to see if I was laughing but I don’t know if it’s because he likes to be funny or he likes me. I have also caught him looking at me a couple of times. What does it mean?
Okay so there’s this boy who keeps following me and every time we have the same class he says awesome. Not only that but he keeps talking to me and always making weird jokes that don’t make sense and every time I say something he laughs but acts nothing like this to other girls.
I guess you could say I fell for a guy who is a little younger than me. I’m almost 24 and he’s only 18. The thing is that it seems that the feeling may be mutual because he is always staring at me and when he does it is always directly at my eyes. He goes out of his way to do nice things for me.
Once when he gave me a hot mug of coffee I spilled it all over my hand and he gave me a wet paper towel to clean myself and a dry one to dry myself off as well. He usually comes up to me and bumps into me. On one occasion I didn’t know he was behind me and we bumped into each other and when I turned to see him he smiled and stood taller than he usually does.
What threw me off though was that he told me his girl of 6 years had dumped him. He sat on the piano and said he had writtenn a song for her and played a part of the song then went on to play other ones and he asked me if I ever wanted a husband and kids. I responded and he said I was crazy for not wanting to get married.
The constant teasing/flirting is great and the fact that his brother always laughs when he and I are together makes me think he likes me but I’m not sure. Please help.
I have this guy that I think likes me but I’m not sure. He did 14 of the 24 and I don’t know how to make a move.
Okay. So this guy I’m going to call him E… he and I have been best friends for around four years. I have the biggest crush ever on him… but I can’t tell him!! He does everything on this list except for the touching, and he constantly teases me! BUT, he has a girlfriend that he hasn’t seen in like 2 years and she lives like 3 hours away but I don’t know if he likes me or her! I’m completely clueless!!!! He has mentioned her a couple of times in front of me and seems to watch for my reaction….. but I don’t know if it means anything or not! HELP!!!
Ok soooooooo… yes I told everyone that asked me who I liked that boys were icky. Truth is, I lied. I’ve liked this one boy Johnathon since grade 1. I am currently going into grade 7 right now :). The problem is I’m moving schools whereas he is staying put. I’m still living in the same town I’m just going to a school about 20 mins away. Im probably not going to see him often unless he visits his cousins who live right beside me. And he’s done and not done some of the things on the list like when he looks at me he just holds eye contact so long it’s like one of those moments where your thinking “god… just take a picture it’ll last longer.” But the real thing is, that I need to tell him I like him. I need him to know so my plan was to text him.
I’m only in 7th grade, but I really like this guy that I’ve known since 6th grade. I mean, last year I didn’t dislike him or like him, at least, not that way. But now, we sit together in math class, and he basically does all of this stuff, except 9, 12, 21, and 22. Though I’m still not sure if he likes me back. I mean he could just be looking at the girl behind me from across the room…
Alright, I’m 14 and I know this guy.. we’ve grown up together and we’re friends I guess you could call it. We always tease each other and lately, we’ve been talking a lot more recently. We went to a camp with his two younger siblings and another family friend that’s his age, one year older than me. He kept on walking me to my campsite at the end of the night and by doing so, he had to basically make a u-turn to get to his campsite.
Then he was constantly putting his arm around my shoulders, lightly, and this is fairly recent. And then he’s started up teasing me about a guy I had a crush on 4 years ago, and saying that “I’m like his little sister” repeatedly, because of how much time we were spending together. A lot of people asked if we were an item and that was always his reply.
Also both of our families went to the beach together 2 weeks ago and basically we just kept on talking and we hung out with each other more so than usual when we have gone to the beach in the past with our families. We were sitting in the water talking when I got a face-full of sand thrown at me, so I splashed some onto my face, hoping to get rid of it. When I was finished, I looked at him, and he had his body angled towards me, and he was staring, and he kept on doing so for a while afterwards, until he looked away and pretended that it never happened.
He always tries to get me, either with some of that gross lake foam or wet willies-constantly with the wet willies. All of my friends insist that he likes me, but I still don’t believe them. He’s shown most of the signs here, but I’m not sure mainly because we grew up together, and I can’t remember a time without him in my life. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated, thanks for reading. 🙂
My advice to you, (since I’m one of the friends that keeps insisting that he likes you) is to go for it! You seem like you’re not sure about this but if you like him, open up to his kindness and let him get close. If he’s gonna make a move, let him! See what happens! If you want him to stop, just say so (politely) and he will probs get the message 🙂 love ya girlie
Okay so I like this guy, he’s great, smart, funny, and a Christian. I told him I had a crush on him but he didn’t have to respond. A couple of days after he asked me if he can fully trust me and then he told me his friends thought I was “fine”. I asked what he thought of me and he said I had a great body. He also said I was sweet, smart, gentle and caring.
We stayed up talking all night long, but after that night he hasn’t talked to me and when I texted him he said he was reading so I said ok I’ll text you when you’re done reading. It has been 3 days and he hasn’t texted. Is he or is he not into me?
I think that he’s just confused about how he feels about you, and maybe trying to figure out his own feelings to see if he’s worthy of you. Hope this helped. 🙂
He probably got caught texting or something. If you see him in person ask what happened!! I’ve been texting this guy until 3 am one night and that was the night he confessed he liked me and I was so happy 😀
So I have this friend who I think likes me. When his friends tease me, he hits them with books (don’t ask). He waits by my locker sort of to walk me to 5th period.
I used to have a crush on this boy and it died out. Now I think he still has one on me! He does everything on the list that I have noticed and I am not sure still what to think. Is it true that when you look at someone you find attractive your pupils dilate to let in more light to get a better look? This could help someone if it is true.
Yes that is true! It’s not always easy to notice when somebody’s pupils are dilated because you have to get pretty close to see. But if you do happen to notice it, it could be a sign that the person likes you.